New Releases by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

Two groups of animals tell each other about the food and other things that they put in their pockets.

The biblical tale of the young sheperd who uses a slingshot to do battle with a giant and eventually becomes a king.

Un vieil homme sauve de la noyade une minuscule petite fille assise sur une toute petite feuille. Sa femme et lui l'adoptent et, ensemble, ils vivent très heureux. Mais, un jour, il faut trouver pour Penny un mari.. à sa taille ! Une histoire douce et tendre au pays des petites personnes, des dessins plein de charme : un régal.

Retells in verse the old tale of the boy who climbed a beanstalk, killed a giant, and won a fortune.

Billy was a very little boy but he fooled the giant.

A collection of poems describing some of the joys and sorrows of friendship.

Counting verses explain how a family ended up with a dozen cats.

Describes in rhyme the activities of cats and the joys of knowing them.

Amy's wait outside the grocery store for her mother seems interminable, and she spends the time imagining the entire rest of her life.

Laura tells her mother a bedtime story about the perilous rescue of a tiny woman.

In these two plays about magic, a wicked witch imprisons a princess and a wizard transforms a boy into a cat.

A retelling of the Slavic fairy tale in which the Month Brothers' magic helps Little Sister fulfill seemingly impossible tasks which prove the undoing of her greedy stepmother and stepsister.

Laura tells her mother a bedtime story about the perilous rescue of a tiny woman.

Lured into the Enchanted Forest through the wiles of her wicked stepmother, Princess Goldenhair is found by Bonnie Cat and Gentle Doe and kept in their castle with the assurance that one day she will return home.

A well-mannered little boy, frequently invited to visit the king and queen, always asks to bring a friend--and the friends are always wild animals--and always well-behaved.

Here are the wit and wisdom of a great American, more than sixty jokes and humorous stories told by and about Abraham Lincoln. He used humor to prove a point, to help answer questions, or to cheer up people around him--P. 1.

A collection of jokes and humorous stories told by and about Abraham Lincoln. Grades 4-7.

A well-mannered little boy, frequently invited to visit the king and queen, always asks to bring a friend--and the friends are always wild animals--and always well-behaved.

Expresses some of the simple joys, activities and wonders children find in the sun and its effects.

On a snowy, windy night at a Dakota farm, a lonely woman wishes for company, music, and a party--and suddenly all her wishes start to come true.

Imaginative prose and photograph depict a child and his shadow at play.

In these verses for children, the author and illustrator "have created a little world complete in itself."

Never satisfied with what he has, a man trades away a knife, a shoe, and even his wife, all the while wondering if he has made a good trade.